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HUMBOLDT EXPRESS

Major Suppliers

Main engine . . . Hyundai/B&W

M.E. remote controls . . B.B.C.

Propeller Ostermann

Shafting Kobe Steel

Oil-fired boiler Aalborg

Generators Fuji

Steering gear Hatlapa

Bow thruster Lips

Radars (2) Krupp Atlas

Satellite navigator Magnavox

Gyrocompass/autopilot . Anschutz

Weather facsimile . . . . Furuno

Main radio & VHF Hagenuk

Sewage treatment plant Sasakura

Windlasses/winches . . . Broehl

Air conditioning plant . . Hi-Press

Cargo crane Tsuji

Hatch covers MacGregor

Reefer plant Sabroe

Container cooling . . . G&H Montage

Purifiers Westfalia

Plate coolers Nagase/Alfa Laval

F.W. generator Sasakura

Switchboards Terasaki

Valve remote controls . . Plieger

Motor starters Terasaki

Coatings Duncker, International

Mobil

Lifeboats Hattecke slightly more complex and there- fore a little more expensive to con- struct, the extra cost of the ship is recovered rapidly in fuel savings.

As international shipowners be- come increasingly aware of the

German development, the asym- metric stern may well become as common as the bulbous bow is to- day. Development work on the new stern design has taken place at the Hamburg model basin over the past 10 years, but it is only the recent steep rise in fuel costs that has brought its advantages home to German shipowners.

Electric power for the Hapag-

Lloyd ships is provided by Fuji equipment—two 1,500-kw diesel generators, one 2,200-kw genera- tor, and one 115-kw emergency generator. Steam generation is by an Aalborg oil-fired boiler and an exhaust gas boiler. Two ballast pumps each have a capacity of 600 cubic meters per hour.

Navigation equipment includes two radars, a satellite navigation system, two gyrocompass/autopi- lots, a magnetic compass, and a weather facsimile unit. The main radio is a 1.5-kw SSB; a VHF ra- diotelephone is also provided. new Hapag-Lloyd ships is the asymmetric afterbody hull form, newly developed by Ernst A. Non- necke of Hamburg in cooperation with the Hamburg Ship Model

Basin. Though it looks unconven- tional below the waterline, the new stern has already proven its advantage in cutting fuel costs by up to 10 percent.

The ships now being built with the asymmetric stern are all des- tined for German owners. In addi- tion to the Hapag-Lloyd ships, nine vessels are being built in

Brazil for three different German owners, all with a capacity of 700

TEU. The first vessel built with this unique afterbody was a 502-

TEU containership constructed at the Heinrich Brand Shipyard in

Oldenburg, West Germany. An ice class cargoliner is being built at the same shipyard, and several other vessels that will have the asymmetric stern are now being constructed or programmed for

German owners.

Though the asymmetric stern is

Another view of the new Hapag-Lloyd ship's asymmetric stern.

Circle 274 on Reader Service Card I

Model PS Exhaust and Duct Systems are accepted by both the

CI S. and Canadian Coast

Guard for use aboard

Coast Guard inspected vessels.

Applications include main propulsion systems, auxiliary and emergency systems, and galley ventilation systems.

Model PS thermal and structural characteristics and limits have been defined through exhaus- tive in-house testing and by seven years of on-the- job performance on land based installations. And,

Model PS systems satisfy the requirements of

Chapter 4, Engine Ex- haust Systems in NFPA 302, Standard on Fire

Protection for Pleasure and Commercial Motor

Craft.

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